2012 International Conference on Computing, Measurement, Control and Sensor Network
A Shopping Store Online Database System
Paula Woodson
Department of Math/CS
Virginia Wesleyan College
Norfolk, VA, USA
pswoodson@vwc.edu
Abstract: This paper presents the design of a
database system for a clothing store using PHP
code and MySQL database that performs search
functions for selected products. There will be a
concentration on the administrator and employee
login where they can access specific items in their
inventory, and check who signed up for different
opportunity the store offers. The system will also
give customers a chance to see the clothes and see
the sign up for the different opportunities.
Keywords-shopping store; database system;
PHP/MySQL; online information system
I. INTRODUCTION
PHP (also known as Hypertext Pre-
Processor) is a general-purpose scripting
language that was originally designed for web
development to produce dynamic web pages [1].
PHP/MySQL (Structured Query Language) is
used for numerous web applications. MySQL is
a database that is used for many different
operating systems or platforms like Mac,
Windows, Linux, Python and Perl. PHP and
MySQL are the reasons for many web
applications that we use today [3]. If we didn’t
have these programs we couldn’t view or run the
websites that we used on a daily basis.
The paper presents the design of a real time
clothing store. There is a customer side of the
website where they could see the clothes and
sign up for the different options the store has,
such as model’s sign-up or rewards card sign up
through MySQL. The website will also have an
administrative/employee side of the website.
That side will we be able to check who signed up
for the model’s sign-up or rewards cards. They
will be able to add and enter items in the
MYSQL database. They will be able to search
and delete item in the database. The website was
written in PHP, HTML (Hypertext Preprocessor)
[2], and MYSQL. The next section will
introduce the system design and case study, and
then the conclusion follows.
978-0-7695-4738-1/12 $26.00 © 2012 IEEE
DOI 10.1109/CMCSN.2012.15
Zizhong J. Wang
Department of Math/CS
Virginia Wesleyan College
Norfolk, VA, USA
zwang@vwc.edu
II. SYSTEM DESIGN/CASE STUDY
The shopping store, J&R Womens
Wear, http://zwang.vwc.edu/~pswoodson/, was
created with a Jeans, Tops, Dresses, Shoes,
Accessories, Clearance, FAQ, JR Awards, and
Gift Cards tabs on the customers’ side. On the
administrator/employees side there is Model
Sign Up, Award Card Holder, Employee Rules
and Regulations, Employee of the Month, Check
Inventory, Jeans Inventory, Tops Inventory,
Dresses Inventory, Accessories Inventory, Shoes
Inventory. The tabs on the customer’s side such
as the Jeans, Tops, Dresses, Shoes, Accessories,
Clearance has the pricing and pictures of some of
the clothes the store carries. The gift card page is
a page where the customers could look up how
much money they had on their card. The website
also has an inventory function. The inventory
function is run with a MYSQL database. The
search function allows the user to browse
through the items easier. It will display the name
of the product, how much it cost and how much
the store has of it in stock. This allows the
employees/administrators see if they need to
order more or not. Figure 1 is a screen shot of
J&R Women’s Wear website published online.
There is 10 different tables in the
MYSQL database and consisted of three or five
fields. Some of the tables are for the customers,
and of the tables are for the administrator and
employee only. The Models and Awards tables
are for the customers to sign up for and the
administrator/employee will be able to see who
sign up for them. The Jeans, Top, Dresses,
Shoes, Accessories tables are for the
administrator/employee. They can add, and
search the inventory that the store has. The fields
for the inventory are the product name, the cost
of the products, and the quantity of how many
are in stock. The product name is a text value.
The cost is a decimal so that it could have a set
decimal place for amount of money. The
quantity is an int value, which means integer.
The following (Figure 2) is a screen
shot of products that was entered into the Jeans
inventory through the website in the Jeans able.
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 Figure 1. The store home page

Figure 2. Inventory tables

The Awards table was designed for
customer to become subscribers to J&R
Women’s Wear store and receive e-mails,
discounts and coupons. This database is used in
combination with PHP for the
administrator/employees. The Models table was
for the customers who wanted to model clothes
in the stores “in store fashion show”. The
customers would be able to submit their
information and it would send it the
administrator/employees side. This table has five
fields containing the Last Name, First Name,
Dress Size, Height, and Contact Number. All of
them have a have a varchar value except for the
dress size because that is an int because it’s an
integer. The Awards and Models table is
described in Figure 3.
To enter the administrative/employee
area one would have to have a ‘username’ and
‘password’ to access to the
administrative/employee options. The employee
can enter, add, and modify the inventory, see the
rules and regulations of the store, able to see who
signed up for the modeling and awards cards,
they could also put time off request on there and
that would go to the administrative side. The
main functions for the employees include:
adding products, editing a product, search for
particular product, and displaying all of them.

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They could add a product, editing anything about view current award card members and models
the items such as the name, cost, and quantity to who signed up they can also add and remove
correct the inventory from mistakes. They could them as well.

Figure 3. Structures of the Awards and Model tables

There are 30 PHP files to interact with {

print '<table border = 1>';
the databases. See sample below of PHP code print '<th> Num <th> Name <th>
that displays the result. Cost <th> Count';
while( $row =
mysql_fetch_row($results_id) )
<?php {
…… print '<tr>';
$table_name = 'Jeans'; foreach ($row as $field )
$query = "SELECT * FROM $table_name"; ……
print "The query is: <i> $query
</i><BR>";
mysql_select_db($database); }
print '<BR><font size=4 color=blue>'; }
$results_id = mysql_query($query,
$connect);
if($results_id)
?>

There are six SQL files used in this website. x Awards2.sql- includes the database for
x Tops.sql- defines the database for the top award statements.
clothes. x Models2.sql- gives the database for model
x Shoes.sql- sets up the database for shoes. requirements.
x Dresses.sql- sets up the database for dresses.
x Acces.sql - sets up the database for
accessories.

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 III. CONCLUSION
An online shopping store website is
great for customers and workers for a store. It’s a
great way for the customers to see what the store
has to offer, whether it is clothes they have or if
it is opportunities that the store has. It is also a
great way for the employees/administrators to
have an inventory database because a lot of
businesses need one.

The paper presents the shopping store

that have a website that benefits both customers
and employees/administrators. The customers to
see what the store has to offer, whether it is
clothes they have or if it is opportunities that the
store has. The employees/administrators can see
if customers are interested in there opportunities
and add, search there inventory list. The
Inventory Database would be managed by the
employees/administrators. It is strictly private by
the employees/administrators. MySQL allows
the database to be created and maintained. The
specified tables, such as Awards, Jeans, and
Models will be constantly updated and
maintained.

REFERENCES
[1] D. A. Lash, The Web wizard's guide to PHP,
Prentice Hall, 2003
[2] E. Castro, HTML for the World Wide We,
Fourth Ed., Peachpit Press, 2000
[3] L. Ullman, PHP and MySQL for Dynamic
Web Sites. Peachpit Press, 2003

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